Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I'm not a Vista fan. I agree with Intel
sticking XP. I was just pointing out why MS might be irritated with
Intel. (There is also the fact that when the biggest CPU vendor
ignores your latest OS, that's not a good sign.) Of course, MS is
selling Vista with the slogan "But you can downgrade to XP!" so
clearly they aren't enamoured of Vista either.
As to how many people are affected by my choice, I'd say I help at
least 20 people per month make a decision on a computer purchase
(some of these are on purchases of 10-50 computers) so I affect at
least 100 computer purchases a month directly, and problably 250 a
month indirectly. So that's at least 1200 a year. So yes, my
opinion is important, and I'm pushing my customers to stick with XP.
(Sorry I wasn't clearer on this.)
T
At 08:08 PM 26/06/2008, DHSinclair wrote:
Thane,
I would really love do shove some love toward MS, but, sadly, I am
out of love here.
I am looking a major money upgrades just to go to XP. But, it is on
the chopping block.
I live very happily on W2Ksp4, thank you. I know, UCan tell me to
get on with it.
My question is WHY?
I am still wondering about windown XP.
If you believe big corporate IT depts just deal with this stuff as
"business as usual" sorry.
Thane, it just does not happen.
I think I understand your operation. You are the single person that
gets to make the decision.
Fine. How many folk get affected by your choice?
Please write me back when your enterprise has >400K bodies using 'windows.'
And, you make your decision.
Perhaps you have lots of cash in the bank to cover contingencies.'
Yes, a bit of a shot, but not a big one, I hope.
Personally, MS deserves no "love" except for foisting it on all of
us. Yes, Windows is better than MS-DOS. But then, that is just me
(and I can take all the bad for admitting this!)
OK-hdw did not stay in track with MS. So what?
OK-I forgot the question.
Is my hdw decision dependent upon which OS I choose to use?
I certainly hope not. Certainly reads this way, however.............. :)
Best,
Duncan
At 19:17 06/26/2008 -0300, you wrote:
Well MS kept back 64 bit XP until Intel fixed their CPUs so that
AMD wouldn't have a big jump on Intel in that department - I'd
think MS would be expecting some love in return.
T
At 07:06 PM 26/06/2008, DHSinclair wrote:
Winterlight,
I does appear that "business" just does not support Vista. (yet).
I can not say I blame them (based on the vitriol I have read on this list.)
Even so. Why do you expect Intel and/or AMD to march in lock-step with
whatever S. Balmer dictates?
Intel/AMD does hardware. MS does software. We all know that there is
plenty of SW that works fine on the current/future hardware............?
Is this divided loyalty?
Is this about a bit of "fan-boy?"
I just do not understand your vent.
Best,
Duncan
At 08:55 06/26/2008 -0700, you wrote:
Reports: Intel to skip Vista upgrade
For any given release of Windows, there are companies that choose
to skip it. But when the company is Intel, it's a big deal.
Following a report Monday on the Inquirer, the New York Times
reported Wednesday that Intel's IT department "found no
compelling case" for upgrading. Ouch.
And that's despite the fact that it's been nearly seven years
since XP debuted. It's not a good thing, if your customers are
electing to stick with 7-year-old technology. (In fairness, XP
did get a fairly big update with Windows XP Service Pack 2, but
even that is four years old at this point.)
Microsoft, which once predicted businesses would adopt Vista at
twice the rate they moved to XP, has scaled back its ambitions
and these days talks a lot about how long the adoption curve is
for businesses when it comes to new operating systems.
